How To Install onionbalance on Debian 10

Learn how to install onionbalance on Debian 10 with this tutorial. onionbalance is Tor hidden service load balancer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install onionbalance on Debian 10.

What is `onionbalance`

onionbalance is:

The onionbalance tool provides load-balancing and redundancy for Tor hidden services by distributing user requests to multiple backend Tor instances.

There are three methods to install onionbalance on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install onionbalance Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install onionbalance using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install onionbalance

Install onionbalance Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install onionbalance using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install onionbalance

Install onionbalance Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install onionbalance using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install onionbalance

How To Uninstall onionbalance on Debian 10

To uninstall only the onionbalance package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove onionbalance

Uninstall onionbalance And Its Dependencies

To uninstall onionbalance and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove onionbalance

Remove onionbalance Configurations and Data

To remove onionbalance configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge onionbalance

Remove onionbalance configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove onionbalance configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge onionbalance

Dependencies

onionbalance have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install onionbalance package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.